In which I accuse some Christians of ‘Pious’ Domestic Abuse

In which I accuse some Christians of ‘Pious’ Domestic Abuse

I was interviewed for a piece on the rise of Christian Domestic Discipline. Here is a part of it:

Right. But where does CDD fit in here? Is CDD a particularly Fundamentalist thing? “Not all Fundamentalists use CDD,” says Watts. “I would wager that many would never think of CDD as legitimately Christian, and yet, I would also wager that if you took the tenants of CDD – such as the wives that submit to their husbands, providing sex on demand – without naming it as such, many Fundamentalists would agree to them as something ‘Biblical’.”